Thanks Thierry - "kill <process_id>" does indeed give me the desired
outcome - the audio duration is now displayed in Finder's "Get Info"
window (and is also discovered & displayed by other tools like afinfo
and mediainfo). I really appreciate your help!
Phil Davis
On 12/26/16 11:59 PM, Thierry Douez wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>> Instead of closing your process,
> try to send a SIGINT or SIGQUIT signal to the child process, eg:
>> kill <process_id>
> kill -9 <process_id>
>> This is just out of my head... HTH
>> Disclaimer: I know nothing about Sox.
>> and happy holidays too,
>> Thierry
>>> 2016-12-27 7:50 GMT+01:00 Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net>:
>>> On a Mac I want to 'type' control-C to a process I opened for update. (I'm
>> using SoX to record some spoken audio, and I want to tell it to end.) How
>> do I do it?
>>>> I found I can just close the process and the audio is preserved in the
>> output file, but then Finder seems to have no idea what the audio duration
>> is.
>>>> Thanks and happy holidays to all -
>>>> --
>> Phil Davis
>>>>>
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Phil Davis